All posts by Mim

What the flying cow is an independent study? An independent study or field study is an act of self studying that is beyond the curriculum. Independent studies can include an intense project that the student pick themselves or the study could just be a project the student is working on with a firm. The study …

MBA application preparation is a long process of eternal suffering. Coming from an international student background, I feel that there are extra hurdles for people like me to go through. Unlike applicants in the US, international applicants do not have the undergraduate prestige/brand name companies to leverage as a part of their application. Some may …

Sometime ago I wrote my GMAT debrief on gmatclub.com and found a very interesting feedback: “But this it seems your expenditure on GMAT and prep is more than $3000. This will not be affordable by most of the students.” This was the first time I realized how much I spent so for other to not …

I was sitting on the opposite side of the dinner table when my friend ask “Why should I start saying which schools I wanna go to when I don’t even feel like they would accept me?” The anxiety in his face and confusion in his voice reminded me how scared I was during my application process. I was in the same exact spot. I have the same hopes and dreams as him but at the same time I fear myself (or my ego) being completely crushed because of rejection letters.

I received a lot of questions on gmatclub.com (despite writing an arguably long and detailed debrief) on how to improve both quant and verbal sections of GMAT. I know a lot of people struggled with how to start studying and I have written a guide on that here. I also know a lot of people …

After working as a consultant (human capital) for two years, I thought I will never set foot on another consulting firm but I guess FOMO, even before MBA, is pretty real. Over the past three weeks I went to local networking event from MBB (McKinsey, Bain, BCG). Even though I have friends working at these …

This book is different. 12 publishers rejected J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter draft but 1 did not. And the one that did not pick Harry Potter because he liked it not because data told him so. It was a hunch, it was a feeling of this is the right thing to do. In a nutshell, this …

There are always more than one side to the story. I am sure that I am not the only one who has several overarching goals of getting an MBA but at the end of the day you have around 500 – 750 words to fit all of it down on to an Essay, let alone …

Recently, I’ve been gaining a lot of messages from my friends and people on gmatclub.com on how to start studying for the GMAT since I managed to make a jump from 550 to 740 in 5 months. So instead of doing tailored replies to all, I’ve decided to dump all my debriefs here in one place …

I honestly didn’t expect myself to be doing accounting courses prior to school but it’s required. It’s a thing! I think a growing number of MBA programs are requiring students to prepare themselves for the rigorous curriculum they’ll be going through for the next two years. These courses are very similar to the ones offered …